To John Murray   20 March [1845]

Dear Sir

I am much obliged for your note, & have the pleasure of enclosing a copy (on the other side) of the agreement with M^r Colburn.

Believe me | Yours faithfully | C. Darwin London Sept. 22^d. 1837¹

This is to certify that after the completion of the sale of the first Edition of the Voyages of Capt^s. King, & FitzRoy and M^r. Darwin, M^r Darwin is to be at liberty to publish his own Journal in any manner he pleases, separately from the general narrative, but this permission is not to prevent Capt^s. King & FitzRoy from continuing to unite it with their own Journals in subsequent editions of the general work | Henry Colburn.